ML20210K669
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| Issue date: | 08/14/1997 |
| From: | Joshua Wilson NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Matthews D NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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August 14, 1997 MEMORANDUM T0:
David B. Matthews, Chief Generic Issues and Environmentai Projects Branch Division of Reactor Program Management, NRR FROM:
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OF MEETINGS HELD ON JULY 8-10, 1997, WITH SIEMENS AND ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTL (EPRI) TO SUPPORT EPRI'S PROGRAM FOR QUAllFICATION OF PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS On July 8-9, 1997, the staff held a )ublic meeting with Siemens AG, Power Generation Group (KWU) (referred to 1ereafter as Siemens) at a Siemens-facility in Roswell, Georgia to )rovide background information on this vendor's capability to surport tie industry /EPRI initiative to qualify programmable logic controllers (PLCs) for use in safety systems at nuclear power pit A list of-attendees and their affiliations is provided as Attachmen A copy of the presentation slides used by Siemens in its presentatt is provided as Attachment 2.
At a meeting held on July 23, 1996 EPRI described its proposal for a PLC qualification program and the rationale behind the initiative. The nuclear industry has been encountering increasing problems with aging analog instrumentation and control equipment.
Equipment is approaching or exceeding its life expectancy, operation and maintenance costs to maintain system performance are increasing, vendor technical support is oeclining at a rapid rate, and spare parts are harder to find. As a result. EPRI and several member utilities have developed a three-phase program for qualification of PLCs.
Phase 1 of this program will be development of a guidance / requirements document containing the generic specifications needed to approve a PLC.
Phase 2 encompasses the qualification espect of this program and will result in a PLC available for procurement as safety-related.
Phase 3 is the plant-specific implementation portion of the PLC program.
As a result of some utility interest in the possibilities of using Siemens products in retrofit c',j g projects, the EPRI group invited Siemens to provide a presentation to their membership and NRC staff.
Siemens stated that it believed that it would ia useful to the utilities to present their capabilities and experience. The staff had a previous public meeting with Siemens on July 2-3, 1997 in the NRC Rockville, Maryland offices.
The staff described the discussions from the previous meeting.
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i Matthews August 14. 1997 Siemens presented an overview of their product development process and their quality control process for both the hardware and software aspects of the design.
They stated that they believe the standards and practices that they followed in the development and manufacturing arecess will allow them to be qualified as a 10 CFR 50 Appendix B vender. 11e product development is primarily performed in the Siemens facilities in Germany.
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Georgia facility may be used for assembly of the final instrumentation cabinets if a U.S. plant purchases one of their systems.
They listed their O.S. and international customers and described the type of aon-nuclear safety related systems and nuclear systems that they have provided.
The products that Siemens is proposing for use in the nuclear power plant industry are the TELEPERM XS (for safety-related systems) and TELEPERM XP (for non-safety-related systems).
Siemens described these systems as complete intagrated instrumentation and control systems.
These systems include data communications and human-machine interfaces as well as PLCs.
Siemens also provided demonstrations of the TELEPERM systems.
Siemens described how these systems could be used for a small application and then add on additional capacity for additional applications.
A significant discussion topic was the i
NRC position on diversity and defense-in-depth.
The public meeting on July 10 was between the staff and EPRI and did not include Siemens participation.
EPRI described the status of the PLC topical report currently under review by the NRC staff. The staff provided comments that EPRI will consider when preparing a revision to the topical report.
EPRI stated that it intends to )rovide the revised text to the staff by the end of i
July to be followed with t1e bound published version.
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Matthews Siemens presented an overview of their product development process and their i
o")11ty control process for both the hardware and software aspects of the avsign. They stated that they believe the standards and practices that they followed in the development and manufacturing 3rocess will allow them to be qualified as a 10 CFR 50 Appendix B vendor.
T,1e product develo> ment is primarily performed in the Siemens facilities in Germany.
The Roswell, Georgia facility may be used for assembly of the final instrumentation 1
cabinets if a U.S. plant purchases one of their systems.
They listed their U.S. and international customers and described the type of non-nuclear safety related systems and nuclear systems that they have provided.
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that Siemens is proposing for use in the nuclear nnwcr plant industry are the TELEPERM XS (for safety-related systems) and iLLEPERM XP (for non-safety-i related systems).
Siemens described these systems as complete integrated instrumentation and control systems.
These systems include date communications and human-machine interfaces as well as PLCs.
Siemens also provided demonstrations of the TELEPERM systems.
Siemens described how these systems could be used foi a small application and then add on additional y!
capacity for additional applications. A significant discussion topic was the l
NRC position on diversity and defense-in-depth.
The public meeting on July 10 was between the staff and EPRI and did not include Siemens participation.
EPRI described the status of the PLC topical report currently under review by the NRC staff. The staff provided comments that EPRI will consider when preparing a revision to the topical report.
EPRI stated that it intends to )rovide the revised text to the staff by the end of
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H. Fish New York Power Authority J. Ruether Northern States Power Co.
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Project No. 669-Electric Power Research Institute i
Mr. Raymond C. Torok.
Project Manager, Nuclear Power Group Electric Power Research Institute Post Office Box 10412 i
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Mr. Gary L. Vine Senior Washington Representative Electric Power Research Institute
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